A review by meliaraastair
The Book of Night with Moon by Diane Duane, Kathryn Parise
5.0
To her humans, Rhiow is like any other cat. But to the world of wizards, she has an important role keeping the world gates in Grand Central Station running. Her and her partners get dropped a new kitten to take care of/guide through his ordeal in the midst of crisis after crisis with the gates. Can they solve the problems and keep their new kitten - and themselves - from losing another life?
First of all, if you haven't read the Young Wizards series, you have to. If you like YA sci fi/fantasy, you just have to read it. I also highly recommend reading those before reading this book. I think this story would be a little hard to follow if you weren't familiar with the main series.
Duane has created such a realistic, yet deeply detailed world. Every aspect of cat/human interactions has been thought about an explained, along with a complete cat language and a very technical science system of how the world gates work. Her brain is just incredible - and the whole thing is so believable.
While there were a few interesting moments in the plot that I was confused at how they were resolved, and occasionally the cat language tripped me up, I really enjoyed reading this book. I'm anxious to read the next one but I'm waiting on Nick to finish the series he has been reading so he will read these!
Again, read the Young Wizards series first, but if you are dying for more like me (like seriously, where is the next book in that series???), check these out! Definitely more adult and not YA (just in detail, not raunchy at all), a little more technical, but still great wizardry books.
This is making me want to go read another fantasy story right now! I'll go 8 of 10 overall (the original series is still so near and dear to my heart that these can't top it) and 3 of 5 for readability. Very technical. But a fantastic story with a very interesting and unexpected ending.
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First of all, if you haven't read the Young Wizards series, you have to. If you like YA sci fi/fantasy, you just have to read it. I also highly recommend reading those before reading this book. I think this story would be a little hard to follow if you weren't familiar with the main series.
Duane has created such a realistic, yet deeply detailed world. Every aspect of cat/human interactions has been thought about an explained, along with a complete cat language and a very technical science system of how the world gates work. Her brain is just incredible - and the whole thing is so believable.
While there were a few interesting moments in the plot that I was confused at how they were resolved, and occasionally the cat language tripped me up, I really enjoyed reading this book. I'm anxious to read the next one but I'm waiting on Nick to finish the series he has been reading so he will read these!
Again, read the Young Wizards series first, but if you are dying for more like me (like seriously, where is the next book in that series???), check these out! Definitely more adult and not YA (just in detail, not raunchy at all), a little more technical, but still great wizardry books.
This is making me want to go read another fantasy story right now! I'll go 8 of 10 overall (the original series is still so near and dear to my heart that these can't top it) and 3 of 5 for readability. Very technical. But a fantastic story with a very interesting and unexpected ending.
For more reviews, check out bedroopedbookworms.wordpress.com!